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UNC linking

Open Syzygy94 opened this issue 9 years ago • 4 comments

Is it possible to auto link a UNC path? So, in other words can we take a string like

\server\folder\file.txt

And convert it to a file link? So, it would need to convert it to

file://server/folder/file.txt

Syzygy94 avatar Nov 17 '15 20:11 Syzygy94

Not sure what is the use case for that. When would you want to send a link to something local to the recipient's machine ?

olafleur avatar Mar 03 '17 00:03 olafleur

An example would be that we have a Web application that creates tickets. And these tickets have notes. Sometimes, people would want to put links to files on the network in the notes. The links would be in the UNC format.

Syzygy94 avatar Mar 03 '17 00:03 Syzygy94

Ok, got it. Thanks for the explanation !

olafleur avatar Mar 03 '17 01:03 olafleur

I also would find this feature handy. It is especially useful when dealing with intranet applications. support for UNC paths and the file:// protocol would be great.

golaat avatar Mar 20 '17 13:03 golaat